What are the responsibilities and job description for the Machine Learning Engineer Intern – TikTok Recommendation, Internship position at Jobright.ai?
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Job Summary:
ByteDance is a global technology company known for its innovative products, including TikTok. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer Intern to enhance the TikTok search experience by applying advanced machine learning technologies, particularly in natural language processing and computer vision, to improve search relevance and user personalization.
Responsibilities:
• Participate in the improvement of the search core algorithm, possible directions include:
• Content understanding/matching: Applying the industry's cutting-edge NLP and CV technology to match the most relevant videos for each search query, and continuously improve the relevance of TikTok search.
• User Behavior Modeling: solving the recommendation problem in search, let TikTok search increase the ability of personalization on the basis of "relevant", and understand users better.
• Video understanding: comprehensive use of NLP, CV, and other technologies for better video understanding from the perspective of the video itself and social network, improve the authority, credibility, and usefulness of search results.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.
• Proficient coding skills and strong algorithm & data structure basis.
• Effective communication and teamwork skills.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: NLP, Ranking, Ads, search engine, recommender system, distributed system, and machine learning.
Preferred:
• Graduating December 2025 onwards with intent to return to degree-program after the completion of the internship.
• Demonstrated software engineering or natural language processing, deep learning experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications.
• High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities.
Company:
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Beijing, Beijing, CHN, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.
